v1.28.0 release

Features 🌈

• add enableVolumeMountGroup feature flag (#1236)
• support windows host process container deployment (#1243)
• upgrade to snapshot v6.2.1 (#1257)

Bug Fixes 🐞

• fix: default actimeo option should respect acregmax and acdirmax (#1244)
• fix: add closetimeo=0 option to fix data sync issue on Ubuntu 22.04 (#1245)
• fix: make sure the VolumeSnapshots v1 CRDs exist before starting (#1258)
• fix: append nosharesock mount option on Linux node by default (#1267)

What's Changed

• doc: cut v1.27.0 release by @andyzhangx in #1232
• chore: upgrade csi sidecar container images by @andyzhangx in #1235
• feat: add enableVolumeMountGroup feature flag by @andyzhangx in #1236
• feat: add host-process containers in helm charts by @ZeroMagic in #1182
• test: add dependabot by @andyzhangx in #1237
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 1 to 2 by @dependabot in #1238
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 2 to 4 by @dependabot in #1241
• chore: fix release-image.sh on publishing windows hostprocess image by @andyzhangx in #1240
• fix: windows host process container deployment by @andyzhangx in #1243
• chore: refine workload identity docs. by @cvvz in #1248
• fix: add closetimeo=0 option to fix data sync issue on Ubuntu 22.04 by @andyzhangx in #1245
• fix: default actimeo option should respect acregmax and acdirmax by @andyzhangx in #1244
• Changing kubernetes-release bucket path to dl.k8s.io by @nitishchauhan0022 in #1250
• chore: refine windows host process container image build by @andyzhangx in #1255
• cleanup: update new chart versions and remove deprecated versions by @andyzhangx in #1256
• fix: make sure the VolumeSnapshots v1 CRDs exist before starting by @andyzhangx in #1258
• feat: upgrade to snapshot v6.2.1 by @andyzhangx in #1257
• Build: add dependabot job for dockerfile updates. by @MartinForReal in #1261
• doc: refine workload identity doc by @andyzhangx in #1263
• fix: append nosharesock mount option on Linux node by default by @andyzhangx in #1267
• chore: update windows host process lib by @andyzhangx in #1265
• cleanup: update new chart versions and remove deprecated versions by @andyzhangx in #1276
• chore: refactor host process code by @andyzhangx in #1277
• cleanup: remove unnecessary path validation on hpc deployment by @andyzhangx in #1279
• doc: remove unused resourceGroup field when secret is specified by @andyzhangx in #1281

New Contributors

• @dependabot made their first contribution in #1238
• @nitishchauhan0022 made their first contribution in #1250
• @MartinForReal made their first contribution in #1261

Full Changelog: v1.27.0...v1.28.0